Exponential backoff is the process of a client periodically retrying a failed request over an increasing amount of time. It is a standard error handling strategy for network applications. The Core Reporting API is designed with the expectation that clients which choose to retry failed requests do so use exponential backoff. Besides being “required”, using exponential backoff increases the efficiency of bandwidth usage, reduces the number of requests required to get a successful response, and […]

WordPress will only prompt you for your FTP connection information while trying to install plugins or a wordpress update if it cannot write to /wp-content directly. Otherwise, if your web server has write access to the necessary files, it will take care of the updates and installation automatically. This method does not require you to have FTP/SFTP or SSH access, but it does require your to have specific file permissions set up on your webserver.

The Heartbleed OpenSSL bug is unlike virtually any Internet-based security threat you’ve probably ever heard of. It’s not a virus that’s specific to one operating system or type of device. Since it revolves around a flaw in the method of encryption used by many of the world’s websites, this problem potentially affects almost everyone who uses the Internet, including people who operate servers that run Ubuntu Linux, the free, open-source operating system.

The most complete benchmarking software is probably Phoronix test suite, which is available in the repositories and can be installed with: sudo apt-get install phoronix-test-suite When running phoronix-test-suite for the first time in terminal, you can either answer yes or no to the questions regarding anonymous statistical reporting. If you answer yes, it says that This information is pooled along with the submissions from all other users to show general trends and other details on OpenBenchmarking.org. It is […]

$ lftp user@test.ftp.com:/directory Password: cd: Fatal error: Certificate verification: Not trusted To disable certificate verification in lftp, $ cat ~/.lftp/rc set ssl:verify-certificate no Or if it doesn’t work try this set ftp:ssl-allow no It will be working for you

Sometimes it just seems to happen, you’re getting the spinning beachball on Mac OS X System Applications/Tools, like the Finder when connecting to a messed up network share. Luckily, most of the time it’s easy (yet annoying) to fix via starting the Terminal and using following commands (beware, the names of the programs to kill are case sensitive!): The Finder crashed: killall -KILL Finder (you can also restart the Finder by option (=alt) + rightclicking […]

Install Postfix Postfix can easily be installed through apt-get: sudo apt-get install postfix During the installation, you will see a dialogue box appear, asking you which kind of installation you would prefer. Select “Internet Site”. Follow up by entering the name of your domain. Once Postfix is installed there are a few steps that need to be taken before it is fully functional. Configure Postfix Once Postfix is installed, go ahead and open the main […]